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Ethanol ablation for benign cystic neck lesions

5 November 2021 | | Head and Neck | Ethanol ablation, Ethanol sclerotherapy, aesthetic surgery
Benign cystic head and neck lesions have traditionally been managed conservatively or with surgical excision. Ethanol ablation (EA) has now established a role in the management of benign thyroid cysts, and its use has also been expanded to non-thyroid cysts....

Risky behaviour: do care homes follow dysphagia recommendations?

5 November 2021 | | Speech and Language Therapy | aged care, barriers, dysphagia, rural, speech-language pathology, texture-modified diets
A huge proportion of elderly people living in residential care homes will develop dysphagia. In Australia this is estimated at close to two thirds of all residents. It is the role of the speech and language therapist to make recommendations...
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CRS vs. migraine: which is the culprit in most headaches?

6 September 2021 | | Rhinology / Sinus | Sino-Nasal Outcome Test, chronic rhinosinusitis, facial pain, headache, migraine, primary headache syndrome
‘Sinus headache’ is a common diagnosis according to patients and primary care physicians, but relatively infrequent in the eyes of otolaryngologists. This study examines 104 patients with a primary headache syndrome (PHS) and 130 patients with CRS, looking at SNOT-22...

Better or barrier: what do healthcare professionals think about teletherapy?

6 September 2021 | | Speech and Language Therapy | children, language assessment, telehealth
Most healthcare professionals will have had to dabble in using some kind of telehealth platform over the last 18 months or so. And most of us will have had some reservations, or have colleagues who just weren’t sure about Zoom,...

Loss of smell after COVID-19: a view from the patient forums

1 July 2021 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, COVID-19
Patient advocate, Chrissi Kelly, founder of AbScent, talks about how the pandemic has changed the way we think about smell loss. The high prevalence of chemosensory impairment as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has shone a much-needed spotlight on...

MedShr for ENT and audiology: clinical case discussion on the go

7 July 2020 | | ENT, Audiology - Adult
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all aspects of our lives – not least medical education. With isolation being the buzzword at the moment, the internet and social media are popular sources for official and crowd-sourced content. In this article, Samantha...

Incoming RSM Presidents share their plans for the year

8 October 2021
Section of Laryngology & RhinologyMichael Kuo – PresidentVictoria Possamai – Honorary Secretary Another academic year for the RSM beckons. The programmes that Tim Woolford and Guri Sandhu presented, culminating in the first ‘face to face’ ENT meeting this year, both...

121st Annual Meeting of the ORL Society of Japan (AMOSJ)

6 October 2020 -7 October 2020
On 6-7 October 2020, the 121st Annual Meeting of the ORL Society of Japan (AMOSJ), which had been postponed for five months due to COVID-19, was held in Okayama Prefecture.

XIII Congress of Otorhinolaryngologists of Ukraine

19 September 2021 -22 September 2021 | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, Paediatric ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
In the beautiful city of Odessa, the Port of Ukraine, and after a long period of absence of meetings due to the pandemic, the Xlll Ukrainian ORL Congress took place, with 1300 participants and 84 speakers from: Ukraine, Egypt, Italy,...

Mucormycosis: In conversation with Dr Deepak Haldipur and Dr Aditya Moorthy

7 July 2021 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, COVID-19
COVID-19 has ravaged the world in the past 18 months. The second wave in many countries was deadlier than the first. Mucormycosis, infamously labelled ‘the black fungus’ has affected some countries, such as India, in epidemic proportions within this COVID...

Sniffing out the evidence – COVID-19 and loss of sense of smell and taste

1 July 2021 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, COVID-19
Louis Pasteur once observed: “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” Professor Hopkins was certainly prepared when a few anecdotes of smell problems started to accumulate early in the pandemic’s course. Post-viral olfactory loss is nothing...

Incoming RSM Presidents share their plans for a year like no other!

5 October 2020
It is a great honour for me to take on the Presidency of the Section of Laryngology and Rhinology at the Royal Society of Medicine. We have a very interesting, thought-provoking and educational programme ahead.